at a detroit bookies backyard where jimmy hoffa is not buried. soil samples show no signs of human remains. >>> what happened on this stage in denver tonight can go a long way towards winning and losing this election. today we look back at the good, the bad and the awkward. we start with this head scratcher from gerald ford, one that helped seal his fate. >> there is no soviet domination of eastern europe and there never will be under a ford administration. >> there already had been at the time. although ford tried to back track later the damage had been done. in 1988 it was a detached answer that got massachusetts governor in trouble and said this media narrative. >> governor, if kitty were raped and murdered would you favor a death penalty for the killer? >> i don't and i think you know that i have proposed the death penalty during all of my life. >> four years later george h.w. bush struggled to explain how the bad economy was hurting him personally. >> i think in terms of the recession of course you feel it when you are president of the unite